Mobile & Wireless

Recently we told how the advertising business was enraged by Microsoft’s decision to break ranks with the industry and make “Do Not Track” the default position on Internet Explorer 10. Web advertising is almost entirely dependent on the ability to track users and make targeted guesses about their interests. Billions of dollars in spending and Continue Reading →

Apple’s iOS 6 is more of an incremental update than a game-changer, but with more than 200 features there is plenty to like here. Outside of the new Maps app, Passbook, and new Siri functions, most of the changes are small, but the total package is more than its individual parts. The update will make Continue Reading →

One of the worst things about getting drunk far from home is having to abandon your car overnight which you then have to painfully retrieve it the following day, hangover and all. Sometimes, the car isn’t even where you left it – it’s been towed. A startup called StearClear launched earlier this spring to address Continue Reading →

It’s tandem operating system updates for Apple today. After rolling out iOS 6 this morning, as promised, the company issued an update for OS X Mountain Lion, its desktop operating system. OS X 10.8.2 is a major update to Mountain Lion with some important new features — one in particular: Facebook integration. Also on board: Continue Reading →

iOS 5 introduced a centralized Notification Center to handle all of iOS’s little alerts—”Bleep! You have a new tweet!” “Blurp! Time to play Words with Friends!” “Blort! Remember to pick up the dry cleaning!” Notification Center’s introduction in 2011 was a long time coming, and a welcome improvement to iOS’s previous modal-only pop-up alerts. Despite Continue Reading →

Sure, the iPhone 5 comes out on Friday, but you can now get Apple’s latest iOS 6 software on your iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Apple has just confirmed that its ready for download through iTunes and as an over-the-air update to your device if you are on a Wi-Fi network. Users should be promoted Continue Reading →

As Microsoft gears up to officially launch its Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 platforms in late October, smartphone makers have been scheduling launch events to show off their new handsets running the latest incarnation of the smartphone OS. We’ve already seen Samsung introduce its new Ativ S, and Nokia has followed up with the Continue Reading →

I’m in my twenties and people my age have things like student loans and low paying, entry-level jobs to worry about — not the size of our iPhone screen. So I look at the iPhone 5 from a cost-benefit standpoint. For anyone who already owns an iPhone the free download of iOS 6 is a Continue Reading →

Apple didn’t spend very much time at last week’s press event discussing the details of its newest mobile operating system because, naturally, most people wanted to hear about the iPhone 5. While the focus on Wednesday, when the software becomes available for download, will be on how iOS 6 works on the iPhone there’s a Continue Reading →

We were worried there, for a minute. After code explorers found that Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 7-inch had both a locked bootloader and extra security measures, there was a brief concern that the pseudo-Android tablet might be very tough to hack. As it turns out, there was no reason to lose faith. Hashcode, Justin Case, Continue Reading →